Name: GinevraMinerva (Signed) · Date: 01/16/16 10:32 · For: On the Edge

I''m so glad you're writing again! I hope 2016 goes better for you.

This is another fab chapter - I really enjoyed it, and I look forwards to the end of the story! I love the nostalgic looking back on a past relationship that couldn't work. All your characters always ring wholly true, it's wonderful.

Just a quick note on French, the French security guard says:
‘Oui, la belle Gabrielle,’ he told me. ‘Savez-lui que vous?’
The second half of that sentence makes little sense, I think you would be better with either "Vous la connaissez?" (Do you know her?) or "Elle vous connait?" (Does she know you?). I wasn't entirely clear which you were aiming for originally.

Now to go read the new chapter of James and Me!
xx

Author's Response: Thanks. I’m glad to be writing again, it’s my escape.
Thanks for the review, and for the corrections to my (pathetic) French. Two of my stories were translated into French, and the translator proved very useful to me. Now, unfortunately, she’s gone.
I’ll make the changes.

Name: Fynnsmom (Signed) · Date: 01/15/16 20:31 · For: On the Edge

I read some of my previous reviews of this story. I don't know what I was so confused about. It's all clear to me now. :D I'm glad you're writing. I love your work. See you next time.

Author's Response: Thanks. Real life has kept me very busy, but I’m back.

Name: minervassister (Signed) · Date: 01/14/16 4:15 · For: On the Edge

Thanks for another great chapter and taking he time to post it.
Hope things go better for you in 2016.

Author's Response: Thanks, I think I’m back writing after months where I've had much more important things to do.

Name: glendora (Signed) · Date: 01/09/16 23:55 · For: On the Edge

Glad to have a new chapter! I hope you and your's are all doing better.

It's very interesting comparing Denis' POV with Gabrielle 's POV earlier. She's less sorrowful about their split than Denis is, which surprised me. All the stories with him and Leslie show him very happy with her, yet this seems stronger than might-have-beens. Am I reading too much into it? And what's this ability to see into people? It seems so much sharper in this chapter than Gabrielle 's. You always have such complexity to your characters. It makes them seem so real.

Author's Response: I’m fine. Unfortunately my mother passed away in early December.
There is probably a longer story in the Den/Gabi romance, but as it’s Paris-set, and would take a lot of research and so it’s not top of my list at the moment. Gabi did mention looking into people in her chapter. Not so much? I’ll check.

Name: fi103r (Signed) · Date: 01/08/16 21:58 · For: On the Edge

Excellent description of Paris and I love your take on Gabrielle as a MarkI City Girl.
I have known a couple of Parisian Ladies they match her language to a T. And temper even without being part Vella Poor Stan does he even know she is part Vella? >snicker

Author's Response: Although I’ve visited Paris several times (the first when I honeymooned there) I can’t claim to know any Parisian ladies, certainly none like Gabrielle.

Name: minervassister (Signed) · Date: 01/01/15 6:09 · For: On the Ball

Happy New Year Neil, great story love the introduction of Gabrielle and her previous relationship with Dennis. Look forward to what happens next.

Author's Response: Thanks. 2015! Harry will be 35 this year. Next, the case is closed, or is it? -N-

Name: Fynnsmom (Signed) · Date: 12/25/14 0:44 · For: On the Ball

I used to work with a gentleman with the last name Joubert. This chapter seemed so complicated or maybe I'm tired. We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve and it's late but I treated myself to reading on Mugglenet. I don't know--were there more people than usual to keep track of? I do think that jurisdictional issues are often difficult to understand. I didn't fully understand the hierarchy of all of these police officers either.

Author's Response: Thanks for the review. I researched French surnames and chose a fairly common one. complicated? the cast is six or so people, plus two you've already met. I'll take another ook at it, and see whether I can simplify things. I did wonder about using both French police forces, in the end I did, because I wanted to keep you in the dark about the narrator's identity for as long as possible. -N-

Name: GinevraMinerva (Signed) · Date: 12/24/14 21:23 · For: On the Ball

A Christmas present!!! Yay!!

Great chapter, as always. I love that Gabrielle became an Auror.

Merry Christmas, and thank you for the story!

Author's Response:
an accidental present, I intended to post this earlier, but life!

Gabi will feature a lot in the next two chapters.

Thanks, and happy new year.

-N-

Name: Wolfs_Scream (Signed) · Date: 12/24/14 17:43 · For: On the Ball

Heh -- Stan may be happier initially, but I get the distinct impression that Gabi is more than capable of putting him in his place ("his place" being defined as "wherever she chooses it to be").... :-}

I suppose jurisdictional disputes are one of the "universals" in human experience.... :-} Nicely done, that.

Happy Christmas to you & yours! :-)

Author's Response: Thanks for the review, and the greetings. Happy New Year. More from Dennis, Stan and Gabi in the next chapter.
Jurisdictional disputes are, fortunately, rare in the Uk, but they do occur.
-N-

Name: Sannah (Signed) · Date: 11/27/14 12:30 · For: On the Case

Great story so far!
What do you mean "Susan has left us"
Did I miss something in one of your stories or is that yet to be written?

Author's Response: Thanks you.
You haven't missed anything. Susan's story is complicated, and I've barely scratched the surface of it.
-N-

Name: minervassister (Signed) · Date: 11/07/14 12:43 · For: On the Case

Great chapter, such a strange crime and now a French connection.
Good to see Harry and Dennis and the rest a few years on.

Author's Response: Thanks. You'll discover more about the French connection soon. This one is set in 2014, Harry is 33, and Dennis 31. How time flies! -N-

Name: Oregonian (Signed) · Date: 11/04/14 18:14 · For: On the Beat

Hi, Neil. I am enjoying your story, as I do with all your works. Just wanted to let you know that you have done me a favor. I am writing a story for my creative writing class here in Oregon, based loosely on some hpff ideas I have had, but with all the names changed, of course, and I have a scene in which members of the police inspect a skeleton that has been uncovered in the course of an excavation. I didn't know what title to call these policemen, but I saw that you had characters who were identified as Detective Constables, so I googled that term and found much information on the British police; that turned out to be the very title that I needed. So thank you.
Vicki

Author's Response: Thanks Vicki. I try to keep the "Muggle police" aspects of my stories (particularly the MIT stories) as accurate as possible, to the extent that I've even noted the date the Metropolitan Police's specialist firearms unit stopped being SO19 and became CO19 (2005). Now, they're SCO19. I'm no expert, but if you need any information, just ask. -N-

Name: Fynnsmom (Signed) · Date: 11/02/14 18:24 · For: On the Case

I think I'd quiver too if Harry put me under his steely gaze, even though I feel I've known him since he was a baby. He'd probably be all friendly and I'd be all scared:D Death by splinching sounds rather unpleasant, not to mention painful. I really like this story. It's very interesting.

Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Harry is in his thirties, and I can imagine his younger staff being somewhat in awe of him. You'll find out more about the suspect in the next chapter. The next narrator won't (I hope) be immediately obvious. -N-

Name: Dad (Signed) · Date: 11/02/14 10:24 · For: On the Case

Can we mention "Friends and foes"?

Author's Response: If we want to, yes. Real life has been very hectic, and this story was almost complete so I've been using it to keep my hand in. I now have some time on my hands, so expect updates of some of my unfinished tales. -N-

Name: Wolfs_Scream (Signed) · Date: 11/02/14 9:03 · For: On the Case

Heh -- Stan's unlikely to be pleased, I'd expect. Pity that. :-} Seems the group is (on occasion) stretched a bit thin.

Yeah, going with simpler explanations (ref. '‘It may not be her, of course, but I think you should keep following that lead...."') makes sense ("Occam's Razor")....

Heh -- good advice from Harry (ref. "stop digging"). Personal experience may have played a role in that observation.

Ginny & Rita as co-workers, eh? In proximity? That seems ... volatile, at best. (Though, given the history of pranking within the Weasley family, I think I'd expect Ginny to do something like cause Rita's shoes to shrink slowly over the course of a day or so. :-} Or maybe extend that to other articles of clothing -- if nothing else, to get Rita to Be Elsewhere to deal with it.)

Excellent! :-)

Author's Response:
Thanks for the review. Stan may be happier when he meets the woman la Bureau des Aurors have assigned to the case. At this point the Muggle Interface Team are understaffed.The simpler explanations are often the best.
At this point, Harry is in his thirties, and he's had a lot of experience.
The Ginny/Rita reference is a nod to JKR's recent writings on the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, which took place in Patagonia.
-N-

Name: Fynnsmom (Signed) · Date: 10/13/14 14:54 · For: On the Pull

I wonder if Stan will get to show the Japanese women around. I can see the MLE has problems with jurisdiction just like American justice departments do.

Author's Response: The M.I.T. are trying to investigate without annoying "the Met" (The Metropolitan Police). Jurisdiction is always difficult when you don't really have any. :-) -N-

Name: Fynnsmom (Signed) · Date: 10/13/14 14:39 · For: On the Beat

Loved this first chapter. It reminded me of some of the old gangster movies--the dark alley; half a body; the bowler hats. I guess I should say that it gave me thoughts of British gangsters. I don't remember any American gangsters wearing bowlers--out in public anyway.

Author's Response: The bowler is the standard uniform headgear for female police officers on foot patrol, just as the custodian helmet is standard for the males. -N-

Name: minervassister (Signed) · Date: 10/12/14 3:15 · For: On the Pull

Great to move on with the story so quickly.
Thanks.

Author's Response: Thanks, I hope that I won't be so long between updates again. -N-

Name: Wolfs_Scream (Signed) · Date: 10/11/14 12:31 · For: On the Pull

I see we're building up to a lot of ... interesting ... interactions among these characters.

I hope you're having (at least) as much fun writing the story as I am reading it! :-)

Author's Response: Thanks for the review.
The plan is for this to be six chapter (and six character vignettes) telling one story. not all will appear in every chapter. Yes, I'm having fun.
-N-

Name: minervassister (Signed) · Date: 10/03/14 9:14 · For: On the Beat

Great start to another MIT story.
Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Author's Response: Thanks.
Chapter three is up at last. More soon, I hope.
-N-